Alexander E. Steen

Alexander Early Steen (1827-7 December 1862) was a Colonel of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Alexander Early Steen was born in Missouri in 1827, and he graduated from West Point before becoming a Second Lieutenant in the US Army. During the mid-1850s, he was sent to New Mexico to lead patrols on reconnaissance missions against hostile Native Americans, and he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Missouri Militia and Brigadier-General of the Missouri State Guard by the time of the American Civil War in 1861. Steen would rise to the rank of Colonel in the Confederate States Army, and he commanded the 10th Missouri Infantry at the Battle of Prairie Grove in Arkansas in December 1862. Steen was killed in the battle against the Union forces.